{"id":2903,"date":"2014-01-24T07:25:46","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T07:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=2903"},"modified":"2014-07-25T12:45:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T12:45:19","slug":"ubuntu-14-04-alpha-2-download","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/01\/ubuntu-14-04-alpha-2-download\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 14.04 Alpha 2 Released, Download Links Included"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ubuntu-logo-icons.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ubuntu-logo-icons.png\" alt=\"Ubuntu 14.04 Alpha 2\" width=\"255\" height=\"222\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2904\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, the next Long Term Support hits alpha 2 release. Though regular Ubuntu doesn\u2019t take part in the alphas , the following flavours are participating in this second round of alphas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Edubuntu<\/li>\n<li>Kubuntu<\/li>\n<li>Ubuntu GNOME<\/li>\n<li>Ubuntu Kylin<\/li>\n<li>Xubuntu<\/li>\n<li>Ubuntu Cloud<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Download Links: releases.ubuntu.com<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><del>Ubuntu Gnome 14.04 Alpha2<\/del><\/li>\n<li><del>Kubuntu 14.04 Alpha2<\/del><\/li>\n<li><del>Edubuntu 14.04 Alpha2<\/del><\/li>\n<li><del>Ubuntu Cloud 14.04 Alpha2<\/del><\/li>\n<li><del>Xubuntu 14.04 Alpha2<\/del><\/li>\n<li><del>Ubuntu Kylin Alph2<\/del><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;re on Ubuntu 13.10, you can also upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04 Alpha to help testing this development release via <a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/01\/upgrade-ubuntu-13-10-saucy-to-ubuntu-14-04-trusty\/\" title=\"Upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04\" target=\"_blank\">this post<\/a>. Note that don&#8217;t do this on production machines.<\/p>\n<p>The Ubuntu 14.04 will hit its first beta release at next month, see the <b>release schedule<\/b>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Alpha 1<\/b> &#8211; December 19th (for flavours) &#8211; <i>released<\/i><\/li>\n<li><b>Alpha 2<\/b> \u2013 January 23rd (for flavours) &#8211; <i>released<\/i><\/li>\n<li><b>Beta 1<\/b> \u2013 February 27th (for flavours)<\/li>\n<li><b>Final Beta<\/b> \u2013 March 27th<\/li>\n<li><b>Release Candidate<\/b> \u2013 April 10th<\/li>\n<li><b>Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Final<\/b> \u2013 April 17th<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, the next Long Term Support hits alpha 2 release. Though regular Ubuntu doesn\u2019t take part in the alphas , the following flavours are participating in this second round of alphas: Edubuntu Kubuntu Ubuntu GNOME Ubuntu Kylin Xubuntu Ubuntu Cloud Download Links: releases.ubuntu.com Ubuntu Gnome 14.04 Alpha2 Kubuntu 14.04 Alpha2 Edubuntu 14.04 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[855],"class_list":["post-2903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ubuntu-14-04"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}